Description
The mycological collection of the Institute of Biological Sciences at UMCS is an important part of the Institute of Botanical Science herbarium. It is registered in the Index Herbariorum under the acronym LBL (http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/ih/). Scientific collections have been collected since the establishment of the University in 1945. The collection consists of approximately 187,000 specimens. The mycological collection includes true fungi (approx. 40,000 specimens), lichens (lichen-forming fungi, ~145,000) and fungus-like organisms (~2,000). Fungal specimens come mainly from Poland, to a lesser extent from abroad (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Great Britain, South Korea). However, lichen specimens (except Poland) come from almost all over Europe, but also from all continents in the world (from both Americas, Asia, Africa, Australia). Among fungi, but especially among lichens, there are many nomenclature types on the basis of which species new to science have been described. The current database of fungi and lichens contains 53,988 records (13,681 and 40,307 respectively). Therefore, a significant part remains to be digitized, over 2/3 of the entire collection.
Data Records
The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 49,198 records.
This IPT archives the data and thus serves as the data repository. The data and resource metadata are available for download in the downloads section. The versions table lists other versions of the resource that have been made publicly available and allows tracking changes made to the resource over time.
Versions
The table below shows only published versions of the resource that are publicly accessible.
How to cite
Researchers should cite this work as follows:
Mułenko W, Mamczarz M, Tymoszuk K, Budnyk O, Kozłowska M (2025). UMCS Mycological collection. Version 1.8. University of Maria Curie-Skłodowska. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-umcs-mycological-collection&v=1.8
Rights
Researchers should respect the following rights statement:
The publisher and rights holder of this work is Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.
GBIF Registration
This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: eb3e7ee6-be20-4fcb-9779-b1b7a25957db. Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by Polish Biodiversity Information Network.
Keywords
Occurrence; Fungi; KSIB; Digital Poland: IMBIO Project; Polish Biodiversity Information Network; Occurrence; Specimen
Contacts
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Geographic Coverage
worldwide
| Bounding Coordinates | South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180] |
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Taxonomic Coverage
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| Kingdom | Fungi |
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Project Data
The dataset resulted from the digitization project IMBIO, supported by the Operational Programme Digital Poland in 2020-2023. The IMBIO project is the most extensive Polish enterprise of natural data digitization, with respect to its range, complexity and volume of the processed content. There is 18 participant institutions with the University of Warsaw as a leader. The project delivered 9.5 million of occurrence records, c.a. 2 million of which are based on specimens deposited in collections, and the remaining data derived from other types of scientific sources: card files, legacy materials and bibliography, publicly unavailable older databases. Integration of these resources has made them accessible and searchable. The access platform is the new version of the Biodiversity Map portal (BioMap, https://portal.biomap.pl), while externally the resources are published via the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).
| Title | Integration and Mobilization of Data about Biotic Diversity of Eukaryota in Resources of Polish Scientific Institutions (IMBIO) |
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| Identifier | IMBIO |
| Funding | Project ID: POPC.02.03.01-00-0081/19. The funding source: the Operational Programme Digital Poland 2014-2020, category: 2.3.1 Digital access to public sector information from administrative sources and scientific resources (type II: Digital access to scientific resources). |
The personnel involved in the project:
Additional Metadata
| Alternative Identifiers | eb3e7ee6-be20-4fcb-9779-b1b7a25957db |
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| https://ipt.gbif.pl/resource?r=imbio-umcs-mycological-collection |